John D. Spengler, PhD (Chair), is the Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation in the Department of Environmental Health of Harvard University’s School of Public Health. He has conducted research in personal monitoring, air-pollution health effects, aerosol characterization, and indoor air. More recently, Dr. Spengler has been involved in research that includes the integration of knowledge about indoor and outdoor air pollution and other risk factors into the design of housing, buildings, and communities. He uses the tools of life-cycle analysis, risk assessment, and activity-based costing to measure the sustainable attributes of alternative designs, practices, and community development. Dr. Spengler has served as an adviser to the World Health Organization on indoor air pollution, personal exposure, and air-pollution epidemiology. He serves on the Institute of Medicine Roundtable for Environmental Health and recently chaired a National Research Council Committee on Green Schools. In 2003, Dr. Spengler was the recipient of the Heinz Award for the Environment; in 2008, he was honored by the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate Academy of Fellows with the Max von Pettenkofer award for distinguished contributions to the field of indoor-air science. He received a BS in physics from the University of Notre Dame, an MS in environmental health sciences from Harvard University, and a PhD in atmospheric sciences from the State University of New York-Albany.

John L. Adgate, PhD, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health in the Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado, Denver. His research on exposure assessment, risk

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Biographic Sketches of
Committee Members and Staff
John D. Spengler, PhD (Chair), is the Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Envi-
ronmental Health and Human Habitation in the Department of Environ-
mental Health of Harvard University’s School of Public Health. He has
conducted research in personal monitoring, air-pollution health effects,
aerosol characterization, and indoor air. More recently, Dr. Spengler has
been involved in research that includes the integration of knowledge about
indoor and outdoor air pollution and other risk factors into the design of
housing, buildings, and communities. He uses the tools of life-cycle analy-
sis, risk assessment, and activity-based costing to measure the sustainable
attributes of alternative designs, practices, and community development.
Dr. Spengler has served as an adviser to the World Health Organization
on indoor air pollution, personal exposure, and air-pollution epidemiol-
ogy. He serves on the Institute of Medicine Roundtable for Environmental
Health and recently chaired a National Research Council Committee on
Green Schools. In 2003, Dr. Spengler was the recipient of the Heinz Award
for the Environment; in 2008, he was honored by the International Society
of Indoor Air Quality and Climate Academy of Fellows with the Max von
Pettenkofer award for distinguished contributions to the field of indoor-air
science. He received a BS in physics from the University of Notre Dame, an
MS in environmental health sciences from Harvard University, and a PhD
in atmospheric sciences from the State University of New York-Albany.
John L. Adgate, PhD, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Environ-
mental and Occupational Health in the Colorado School of Public Health,
University of Colorado, Denver. His research on exposure assessment, risk
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analysis, and children’s environmental health has focused on improving ex-
posure assessment in epidemiologic studies by documenting the magnitude
and variability of human exposures. Dr. Adgate has served on many science
advisory panels of the US Environmental Protection Agency, exploring tech-
nical and policy issues related to residential exposures. Dr. Adgate received
a BA in biology from Calvin College, an MSPH in environmental science
from the School of Public Health of the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, and a PhD in environmental health granted jointly by the
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and Rutgers University.
Antonio J. Busalacchi, Jr., PhD, is Director of the Earth System Science
Interdisciplinary Center and a Professor in the Department of Atmospheric
and Oceanic Science of the University of Maryland. His research interests
include tropical ocean circulation and its role in the coupled climate system
and climate variability and predictability. Dr. Busalacchi has been involved
in the activities of the World Climate Research Programme for many years
and is chair of its Joint Scientific Committee. Dr. Busalacchi is chair of the
National Research Council Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate,
a member of its Panel on Advancing the Science of Climate Change, and
cochair of the Research Council Committee on National Security Implica-
tions of Climate Change on US Naval Forces. He holds a BS in physics and
an MS and a PhD in oceanography from Florida State University.
Ginger L. Chew, ScD, is an Epidemiologist in the National Center for
Environmental Health of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC). She is also Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Mailman
School of Public Health. Dr. Chew’s research has focused on exposure
assessment of aeroallergens and fungi in the indoor environments of low-
income children. She has been part of a team that is designing a nationwide
study of low-income homes that have been renovated with green or tra-
ditional materials and methods. In 2005, Dr. Chew participated in CDC’s
environmental-health response to Hurricane Katrina, helping to plan its air-
sampling strategy and perform data analysis and interpretation. She holds a
BS from the University of Georgia, an MS from the University of Alabama,
and an ScD from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Sir Andrew Haines, MBBS, MD, is Professor of Public Health and Primary
Care of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where
he served as Director until October 2010. His research interests are in
epidemiology and health-services research, focusing on the study of en-
vironmental influences on health, including the potential effects of global
environmental change. In 2009, he chaired an international task force of
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climate-change mitigation and public health, whose results were published
in a series of articles in The Lancet in December 2009. Dr. Haines serves
on a number of major international and national committees, including the
Advisory Board of the National Institute for Health Research of England,
the Medical Research Council (MRC) Global Health Group, and the MRC
Strategy Group. He was formerly a member of the UN Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change and of the World Health Organization Advisory
Committee on Health Research. Dr. Haines earned his MBBS in medicine
and MD in medicine and epidemiology from the University of London. He
is a Foreign Associate Member of the Institute of Medicine.
Steven M. Holland, MD, is Chief of the Laboratory of Clinical Infectious
Diseases of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Na-
tional Institutes of Health. He is also a tenured investigator and Chief of
the Immunopathogenesis Section of the laboratory. Dr. Holland’s major
research interests include susceptibility to disseminated and pulmonary
mycobacterial infections, mechanisms of mycobacterial and bacterial patho-
genesis, and mechanisms of phagocyte immunodeficiency. From 2006 to
2008, he served as President of the International Immunocompromised
Host Society. Dr. Holland received his MD from the Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity School of Medicine, where he served as a resident in internal medicine,
assistant chief of service in medicine, and fellow in infectious diseases. He
is Board-certified in internal medicine with a subspecialty in infectious
disease.
Vivian E. Loftness, MArch, FAIA, is University Professor of Architecture at
Carnegie Mellon University and Senior Researcher in its Center for Building
Performance and Diagnostics. She is an international energy and building-
performance consultant for commercial and residential building design and
has researched and written extensively on energy conservation, passive so-
lar design, climate, and regionalism in architecture. Prof. Loftness is a mem-
ber of the Pennsylvania State Climate Change Advisory Committee and has
served on several National Academies committees, including the Committee
on Review and Assessment of the Health and Productivity Benefits of Green
Schools. She has worked for many years with the Architectural and Building
Sciences Division of Public Works Canada, researching and developing the
issues of total building performance and the field of building diagnostics.
Prof. Loftness holds a BS and an MArch from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and
is a registered architect.
Linda A. McCauley, PhD, FAAN, RN, is Professor and Dean of Emory
University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. Dr. McCauley has

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expertise in the design of epidemiologic investigations of environmental
hazards and is nationally recognized for her expertise in occupational-
health and environmental-health nursing. Her work aims to identify cultur-
ally appropriate interventions to decrease the effects of environmental and
occupational health hazards in vulnerable populations, including workers
and young children. Dr. McCauley was previously the Associate Dean for
Research and the Nightingale Professor of Nursing in the University of
Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She received a bachelor of nursing degree
from the University of North Carolina, a master’s in nursing from Emory,
and a doctorate in environmental health and epidemiology from the Uni-
versity of Cincinnati. She is a Member of the Institute of Medicine.
William W. Nazaroff, PhD, is the Daniel Tellep Distinguished Professor
and Vice-Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineer-
ing of the University of California, Berkeley. His main research interest is
in indoor air quality, with an emphasis on pollutant-surface interactions,
transport and mixing phenomena, aerosols, source characterization, expo-
sure assessment, and control techniques; and his teaching activities include
a course that assesses the technologic opportunities for mitigating climate
change. Dr. Nazaroff is coeditor of Indoor Air and Vice President of the
International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate Academy of Fel-
lows. He received his BA in physics and his MEng in electrical engineering
and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and his
PhD in environmental engineering science from the California Institute of
Technology.
Eileen Storey, MD, MPH, is Chief of the Surveillance Branch, Division of
Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She has been
serving as Acting Chief for the Surveillance Branch since February 2009.
She was formerly Chief of the Division of Public Health and Health Policy
and Director of the Center for Indoor Environments and Health at the
University of Connecticut Health Center. Dr. Storey’s research focuses on
the spectrum of respiratory disease associated with indoor environments,
with particular interest in the relationship between building-related upper
respiratory syndromes, such as rhinitis and sinusitis, and the develop-
ment of lower respiratory syndromes, such as asthma and hypersensitivity
pneumonitis. Her work addresses the development of exposure-assessment
tools to characterize indoor risk factors. Dr. Storey received her MD from
the Harvard Medical School and her MPH from the Harvard School of
Public Health. She is Board-certified in internal medicine and occupational
medicine.

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INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE STAFF
David A. Butler, PhD, is Senior Program Officer in the Institute of Medi-
cine (IOM). He received his BS and MS in engineering from the University
of Rochester and his PhD in public-policy analysis from Carnegie Mellon
University. Before joining the IOM, Dr. Butler served as an analyst for the
US Congress Office of Technology Assessment, was Research Associate in
the Department of Environmental Health of the Harvard School of Public
Health, and performed research at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Govern-
ment. He has directed several IOM studies on environmental-health and
risk-assessment topics, including ones that produced Damp Indoor Spaces
and Health, Clearing the Air—Asthma and Indoor Air Exposures, Veterans
and Agent Orange: Update 1998 and Update 2000, and the series Charac-
terizing the Exposure of Veterans to Agent Orange and Other Herbicides
Used in Vietnam. Dr. Butler was also a coeditor of Systems Engineering to
Improve Traumatic Brain Injury Care in the Military Health System.
Lauren N. Savaglio, MS, is a Research Associate in the Institute of Medi-
cine. She received her BS in political science and international relations
from Arizona State University and her MS in global health from George
Mason University (GMU), where her research interests included pesticide
use in agriculture and the nutritional status of those infected with HIV/
AIDS. She is also an Adjunct Professor in GMU’s Department of Global
and Community Health, where she teaches health and environment courses.
Before going to the IOM, she practiced as an emergency medical technician
at INOVA Fair Oaks Hospital in Virginia, performed HIV/AIDS research
for Whitman-Walker Health, and served in the Peace Corps in Togo, West
Africa.
Tia S. Carter, MHA, is a Senior Program Assistant in the Institute of Medi-
cine. In December 2008, she graduated with her master’s in health-care
administration from the University of Maryland, University College. She
received her undergraduate degree in community health from the University
of Maryland, College Park. Before going to the IOM, she worked as the
Health Promotions Coordinator at the Greater Washington Urban League
in the Division of Aging and Health Services, where she was responsible
for health-promotion and disease-prevention education services and activi-
ties among the elderly. She has been involved with the IOM committees
responsible for the reports Asbestos: Selected Cancers and Veterans and
Agent Orange: Update 2004 and Update 2006.
Rachel S. Briks, BS, is a Program Assistant in the Institute of Medicine
Board on the Health of Select Populations. She received her BS in commu-

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nity health from the University of Maryland, in College Park in May 2010.
Before joining the IOM, she interned at AED Center on AIDS and Com-
munity Health and worked as a clerk for the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics through the Student
Temporary Employment Program (STEP).
Victoria Wittig, PhD, was a winter 2010 Christine Mirzayan Science and
Technology Policy Fellow at the National Academies. She graduated from
the University of Illinois with a PhD in plant biology in May 2008. Her
thesis research quantified the effects of two rising greenhouse gases—
tropospheric ozone and carbon dioxide—on the growth and productivity
of trees, a topic that has implications for understanding and modeling the
global carbon cycle and climate change. Previously, Dr. Wittig was a post-
doctoral research associate in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, also
at the University of Illinois, where she improved models of photosynthesis
to project effects of global changes on the terrestrial carbon cycle. She is
now working toward applying her academic training at the intersection of
environmental science and public policy in Washington, DC.
Rose Marie Martinez, ScD, is Director of the Institute of Medicine Board
on Population Health and Public Health Practice. Before joining the
IOM, she was Senior Health Researcher at Mathematica Policy Research,
where she studied the effects of health-system change on the public-health
infrastructure, access to care for vulnerable populations, managed care,
and the health-care workforce. Dr. Martinez is former Assistant Director
for Health Financing and Policy with the US General Accounting Office,
for which she directed evaluations and policy analysis on national and
public-health issues. Dr. Martinez received her doctorate from the Johns
Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.

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